RALEIGH – Law Professor Barbara Reich will join Campbell Law School as a visiting professor for the 2026 fall semester beginning Aug. 1, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Reich, who joined the Western New England University School of Law faculty in 2005, will teach Torts, a course she has regularly taught throughout her career as a professor.
“I am thrilled to announce Professor Barbara Reich will be joining us this fall to teach Torts,” Leonard said.
Reich, who has also taught courses on a variety of health law subjects, has served as a member of Mercy Hospital’s Ethics and Social Justice Committee and Ethics Consultation Committee and as a member of Baystate Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board. Before joining the faculty at Western New England University, she taught health law and bioethics courses for eight years at the University of Florida’s Colleges of Law, Medicine and Health Professions as a Lecturer in Law. Reich also has prior experience as a member of a hospital ethics committee and institutional review board at Florida’s teaching hospital.
Before Reich began teaching, she spent twо years in private practice in Washington, D.C., specializing in pharmaceutical and medical device law. Her research interests include legal and ethical issues in end-of-life decision making; comparative end-of-life law; pediatric health issues; racial disparities in the delivery of health care, clinical research ethics and the impact of politics in science and medicine.
Reich is a past Visiting Scholar at Exeter University School of Law in the United Kingdom and Queen’s University School of Law in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She also completed an appointment in Spring 2017 as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Her scholarly works include publishing a number of books and book chapters as well as law review articles. Her most recently published book is “Intimations of Mortality: Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life” (2025).
Reich earned her JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Union College, where she graduated summa cum laude.
ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW SCHOOL
Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 5,000 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2026, Campbell Law is celebrating 50 years of graduating legal leaders and 17 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City.